Word: tabloidism
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...report, consisting of depositions from many of the principals involved in the scandal, focuses on a plan to undermine the Daily Mail and other opposition newspapers by secretly subsidizing a new, pro-government tabloid, the Johannesburg Citizen. In 1976, says the report, the department provided a fertilizer company directed by Businessman Louis Luyt, 46, with $15 million in government cash -a direct violation of treasury regula tions. In exchange, Luyt testified, he pledged as publisher of the Citizen to support editorially the government's apartheid policies. But, Luyt said, he soon tired of Eschel Rhoodie's incessant efforts...
...news, and a lot of sell-promotion. Murdoch is too commercially astute to try to fill the gap left by the Times (he couldn't anyway). Instead, while he has the spotlight he has been trying to start up a new Sunday paper and a salty new morning tabloid to compete against the New York Daily News...
Australian Press Lord K. (for Keith) Rupert Murdoch did not endear himself to the Manhattan publishing establishment when, two years ago, he snapped up the New York Post, New York magazine and the Village Voice, and began remaking the Post according to his own tabloid tastes. Last week the publishers had even less reason to love Murdoch. In a move variously regarded as daring, cynical and even brilliant, the Australian broke ranks with his fellow publishers and made a separate peace with nine striking unions. His Post thus became the first major New York newspaper to hit the streets since...
...make permanent the New York Daily Metro, a strike paper he financed, then fold the Post and go after the morning markets controlled by the Times and the News. Yet the Metro died the day the Post resumed publishing. Still, Murdoch men are not ruling out a future morning tabloid, probably along the lines of his spicy and sensational London Sun. It was also said that Murdoch rushed into print as a prelude to turning the Post into a so-called all-day paper, churning out editions around the clock. Post executives counter by saying the Post virtually does that...
...that did not sit well with the Mail's principal tabloid rival in Britain, the Express, which had dropped out of the bidding at $190,000. Express reporters claim they had learned that the yet unidentified father was driving three hours each way to visit his wife. So they staked out the hospital parking lot, jotted down license numbers of male motorists who looked as if they might be expectant fathers and traced them through Britain's motor licensing bureau. How? "By subterfuge, even bribery!" speculated an angry civil servant. The Express soon narrowed the search to Brown...